Tsotsi

Tsotsi is a 2005 film directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski. It is a adaptation of the novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard and a South AfricanUK coproduction . The soundtrack features Kwaito music performed by popular South African artist Zola as well as a score by Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker featuring the voice of South African protest singerpoet Vusi Mahlasela.

Because his mother is dying of a terminal disease, David Benny Moshe runs away from an abusive father and lives with other homeless children in a series of large concrete construction pipes. A few years later, David, who now goes by the name Tsotsi Presley Chweneyagae, is the leader of a gang which includes his friends Butcher Zenzo Ngqobe, Aap Kenneth Nkosi and Boston Mothusi Magano. After getting involved in a murder committed by Butcher during a mugging, Tsotsi and Boston get into a fight which leaves Boston badly injured. Tsotsi later shoots Pumla Nambitha Mpumlwana, a young woman, while stealing her car, only to discover a threemonthold baby boy in the back seat. Tsotsi hastily strips the car of its valuables and takes the baby back to his shack. Pumla survives the attack and works with a police artist to create a composite sketch of Tsotsis face, which is then run in the newspapers.Realizing that he cannot properly care for the baby on his own, Tsotsi spots Miriam Terry Pheto, with a young child strapped to her back, collecting water from a public tap. He follows her to her shack and forces her at gunpoint to feed the kidnapped child. Meanwhile, rich gang leader Fela Zola begins attempting to recruit Aap, Boston and Butcher to work for him. When Tsotsi takes the child to Miriam a second time, she asks him to leave the boy with her so that she can care for him on Tsotsis behalf, and Tsotsi agrees. ........

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